24 IE high school students busted for selling drugs on campus

A drug probe rocks a pair of local high schools: Two dozen students are accused of selling illegal substances on campus.

Deputies arrested 12 students from Elsinore High School in Wildomar and the other 12 from Vista del Lago High School in Moreno Valley.

The students, whose ages range from 15 to 19, are being charged with selling a controlled substance.

Students at the two Riverside County high schools are not talking about their Christmas break plans. Instead they are talking about their classmates who were pulled from the classroom and arrested Thursday morning.

"Three huge dudes in sheriff jackets came in and just tapped the kid on the shoulder and he walked out crying and they searched him," said student Adriana Hernandez. "It was pretty scary."

The arrests came just as students were settling in to the school day at Vista del Lago High School and Elsinore High School.

Investigators with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department's Special Investigations Bureau identified 23 students and a former student who, they say, sold drugs to their classmates.